i~HD is happy to announce that three members of the i~HD Data Quality Task Force were invited to become Guest Editors for a Special Issue on “Biomedical Data Quality Assessment Methods” in the journal ...
05/12/2017

As the Organising Committee of the conference, we are pleased to announce that we have reached 270 registrations from a range of different stakeholders and countries. It will be a real European multi- ...
19/09/2017

Around 85 participants representing 50 hospitals from around Europe participated in the Hospital Network workshop held by the European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i~HD. ...
20/02/2017

The results of a new study published in the International Journal of Medical Informatics suggests that the exploitation of a new technological platform which enables the reuse of hospital-based electr ...
01/12/2016

EuroRec has been supporting the European Commission through the study Scale AHA in conducting the Call for Reference sites 2016 which was launched in December 2015 December 2015 at the Conference of P ...
01/08/2016

Dipak Kalra was one of four international speakers invited to contribute to a colloquium organised by the French Ministry of Health on the societal value and attitudes towards scaling up the use of bi ...
07/07/2016

The European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and the French Association for Medical Informatics (AIM) invite you to participate to the Special Topic Conference (STC) “Transforming Healthcare ...
23/12/2015

Pascal Coorevits of EuroRec discusses the new European Institute for Innovation Through Health Data initiative, which has set itself up as a not-for-profit organisation which aims to enable, accelerat ...
03/09/2015

On behalf of EHTEL/ELO chair Andreas Grode (gematik, Germany) you are kindly invited to the next meeting of the EHTEL/ELO Network on 30 September and 1 October 2015 (Wednesday and Thursday). ...
02/09/2015

EHR4CR paper has been selected as “one of the best articles from the literature in the Clinical Research Informatics domain”, to be published in the 2015 IMIA Yearbook of Medical Informatics ...
26/08/2015

Europe's biggest and most important event on Ambient Assisted Living, the AAL Forum 2015 is coming to Ghent, Belgium. The event is an initiative of the AAL Programme, supported by IWT, the Flemish age ...
11/08/2015

This year EuroRec is running a scientific session “Trusted Reuse of Health Data for Research - Showcasing European Project Results” and is organizing Project Demonstrations on this topic. During the ...
26/03/2015

eHealth Week is the leading forum for the advancement of health IT in Europe. Combining the High level eHealth conference co-organised by the European Commission and
the Latvian Presidency of the Cou ...
30/10/2014

The European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI) and the Spanish Society of Health Informatics (SEIS), Spain invite you to submit your contribution to the 26th Medical Informatics Europe Confere ...
30/10/2014

International experts in the field of health information semantics came together for a three-day in-depth workshop to explore best practices in how to standardise the meaning of clinical information w ...
28/04/2014

"Pre-competitive eHealth Tools"
EuroRec will be active in several sessions during this exciting conference in mid May. Following a closed workshop for our ProRec Centres that morning, EuroRec will be ...
18/04/2014

This course is particularly useful for:
i) All clinical leaders and decision makers who have to commission healthcare systems, or decide how their present systems should evolve so as to provide a ...
04/02/2014

EHR4CR (IMI-JU project) organised its first European Hospital Conference in Brussels on April 9th 2014. During this by invitation only event, a Europe-wide Hospital Engagement Programme on the enhance ...
03/01/2014

SWAT4LS is a workshop that provides a venue to present and discuss benefits and limits of the adoption of Web based information systems and Semantic technologies in biomedical informatics and computat ...
26/09/2013

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Georges De Moor, Head of Medical Informatics of Ghent University and President of the EuroRec Institute, Belgium will be speaking on Saterday 3 March. ...
29/02/2012

On behalf of the Italian Medical Informatics Association (AIIM), the e-health Italian Community and the European Federation for Medical Informatics (EFMI), we invite you to the 24th European Medical I ...
23/02/2012

The delegates, present at the Regional Conference on Quality Labelling and Certification of Electronic Heath Record (EHR) systems (Belgrade, Serbia, November 21-22, 2011) recognise the potential of e- ...
25/11/2011

Nursing and Medical Applications (under the product name ICS-M), which are part of the software suite “Integrated Care Solutions” developed by the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for R ...
05/10/2011

The ARGOS Policy Briefs and Position Papers on Virtual Physiological Human, Semantic Interoperability, Measuring Adoption, Usage and Benefits of eHealth and Certification of EHRs will be presented dur ...
04/04/2011

Prof. De Moor is presenting the ARGOS eHealth Pilot Project results during the workshop on the EU-US cooperation on eHealth to present "ongoing and planned actions". The workshop is organized by the E ...
24/03/2011

Following the signature on 17th December 2010 of the MoU between EU and US related to ICT for Health activities, the EC is organising a workshop (14 April 2011) on the EU-US cooperation on eHealth to ...
22/03/2011

EuroRec and the other HITCH project partners are organising a Workshop during the IHE European Connectathon 2011 in Pisa about 'Towards Effective eHealth Interoperability Certification and Conformanc ...
16/03/2011

It is pleasure to invite you to the “II workshop of criteria validation for the EuroSeal level 2 of the
Eurorec Institute” that will take place on February 21th form 9:30 a.m in the auditorium of
Ho ...
18/02/2011

MIE2011 is the 23rd International Conference of EFMI - the European Federation for Medical Informatics, and takes place in Oslo August 28.–31. 2011. The conference will cover various topics in the are ...
27/01/2011

Health IT has a great potential to increase the quality of care by improving the availability of shared and interoperable patient records, by enabling evidence-based disease management and by offering ...
20/01/2011

On behalf of Dr Pablo Serrano, Medical Director, it is a great pleasure to inform you that the Spanish Health Ministry has awarded the Project "First Experience of a Patient Summary based on the ISO/C ...
12/01/2011

On Friday, November 12, Nancy Lorenzi, AMIA Board Chair and Professor of Biomedical Informatics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, convened a meeting of the ARGOS eHealth Consortium, a p ...
04/01/2011

Vice-President of the European Commission Neelie Kroes and United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius signed a Memorandum of Understanding in Washington to promote a common ...
20/12/2010

EPPOSI’s 2nd Workshop on Chronic Conditions is designed to help formulate the principal
elements of a holistic new model which can actively reduce the debilitating personal and economic
burden of ch ...
29/11/2010

The Portuguese ministry of Health, through the project team for the Electronic Health Record, will hold the 1st International meeting on the electronic Health Record that will take place in the 26th o ...
17/11/2010

ProRec Slovakia announces there will be a session devoted to EHR-Q-TN project during the conference called NIS 2010, the Slovak annual conference devoted to hospital information systems. ...
05/10/2010

The Conference is organized by the Estonian eHealth Foundation which is in charge of promoting and developing national eSolutions within the health care system in Estonia. The Tallinn eHealth Conferen ...
03/08/2010

40 people involved in the design and implementation of interoperable electronic health records that are based on the new international EHR standard (ISO/CEN EN13606) came together in Madrid for a 2-da ...
03/08/2010

Overview of locations and time of the High Level eHealth Conference, the Workshops organised by EuroRec, the Sessions organised/moderated by or with involvement of EuroRec + info on the EuroRec Booth. ...
09/03/2010

Within the EHR-Implement project, a list of 10 major factors influencing large scale implementation of EHR systems was derived from the National Reports of Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Ireland, ...
24/02/2010

During the WoHIT Conference & Exhibition -for the first time held in conjunction with the European Union’s annual High Level eHealth Conference- in Barcelona, EuroRec will give three presentations on ...
24/02/2010

The EuroRec Institute, the body responsible for promoting the use of quality labelled Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems across Europe, is pleased to announce the release of a profile identifying ...
04/12/2009

Event organised by Prorec.SI, with support of Ministry of Health. The MoH has its particular interests in this workshop as they expect to get a first-hand feedback for their eHealth national project, ...
10/11/2009

COPENHAGEN – The International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO) and the openEHR Foundation will work together to develop clinical content for the electronic health record ...
24/09/2009

To obtain views on the new challenges for personal data protection in order to maintain an effective and comprehensive legal framework to protect individual’s personal data within the EU, citizens, or ...
27/07/2009

The Federal Public Service - Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment and ProRec-BE
are pleased to invite you on a thematic day on
“Terminologies and Coding Tables in the Belgian Healthcare”
This ...
13/05/2009

The European Commission published a report from the SemanticHEALTH project, EuroRec recently published a relevant document (a Q-REC Deliverable) about the quality criteria for the production and publi ...
16/02/2009

The board of the European Institute for Health Records (EuroRec) proudly announces that Four GP Practice Software Products have achieved the conditions to be met for the EuroRec Quality Label 2008 for ...
14/11/2008

EuroRec’s Annual Conference 2008 took place on the 3rd of November in Copenhagen in a joint meeting with EHTEL. The conference was entitled “eHealth Planning and Management Symposium 2008”.
...
07/11/2008

The European Commission has published new draft of interoperability guidelines setting out a roadmap to achieve interoperable electronic health records across the continent by the middle of the next d ...
22/07/2008

The Workshop entitled "Quality Labelling and Certification of Electronic Health Record Systems in Europe" is organised as a satellite conference of the eHealth 2008 in Slovenia and will take place on ...
19/03/2008

Toward integration of Clinical Care and Clinical Research:
The purpose of this workshop is twofold:
- Building on the work done during the first workshop and afterwards, define concrete steps and ar ...
05/02/2008

This report, drafted by a Commission eHealth task force, comprising representatives of several DGs, sketches out a number of policy recommendations for areas of intervention up to 2010. The recommenda ...
24/01/2008

If Electronic Health Record systems are to provide an effective contribution to healthcare across Europe,
a set of benchmarks need to be set to ensure quality control and interoperability of systems. ...
28/11/2007

A representative EU-wide survey is underway to provide up-to-date figures.
At the WHIT Conference in Vienna, benchmarking and good practice will be a key topic, among others in sessions like ES25 " ...
16/10/2007

ICT has the potential to make a significant
contribution to the better management
of healthcare provision. This cannot be
achieved without the availability of trustworthy Electronic Health Record s ...
05/10/2007

We are standing before adjusting ProRec SK setup and the integration process into the European framework, in which recommendations for national ProRec centres (Deliverable 6.1) will be followed. ...
20/09/2007

Christopher Nolan from ProRec Ireland and the Healthcare Informatics Society of Ireland is appointed Vice Chair of the HIMSS EMEA Governing Council. Petra Wilson is the Director for Public Sector Hea ...
03/08/2007

Three call for studies are planned to be launched in 2007. Contracts are expected to be awarded and signed before the end of the year.
They are foreseen to start in January 2008. More information w ...
12/07/2007

CHICAGO -- June 28, 2007 --
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology announced today that it has published its approved criteria for certification of inpatient (hospital-ba ...
12/07/2007

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced the United States will participate in an international effort to encourage more rapid development and worldwide adoption of stand ...
02/05/2007

CCHIT announced today it is accepting applications for its Inpatient (hospital) electronic health records (EHRs) Certification pilot through March 30, 2007. Preparation for pilot testing will begin in ...
29/03/2007

Strategic health authorities have been instructed to make support for GP practice data accreditation a priority, the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate heard after a GP raised problems about ...
29/03/2007

Strategic health authorities have been instructed to make support for GP practice data accreditation a priority, the Healthcare Computing conference in Harrogate heard after a GP raised problems about ...
28/03/2007

The five-part "Health Informatics - Electronic Health Record Communication" formal European standard is now gradually being approved.
EN 13606 results from the revision of the European pre-standard a ...
26/03/2007

We are pleased to announce that our inaugural speaker for the eSeminar on Tuesday, 3 April, 15:00, CET, will be Prof. Georges De Moor, Head of Medical Informatics of Ghent University and President of ...
19/03/2007

This week E-Health Insider exclusively reports that plans for drawing up a catalogue of additional suppliers appear to be at an advanced stage within Connecting for Health (CfH), and could be run alon ...
07/03/2007

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHITSM) announced today that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has authorized and funded the Commission to exp ...
28/11/2006

Dr Glyn Hayes has become vice-president of the British Computer Society with overall responsibility for the society’s forums. Dr Hayes, who was a GP in Worcester for 25 years, is a founder member of t ...
16/11/2006

Most of the leading GP computer suppliers have now passed compliance testing for the latest version of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and are rolling it out to GP practices. Among those who have r ...
09/11/2006

To the surprise of no one, Mike Leavitt, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, has designated the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) as the depa ...
31/10/2006

A course looking at the role of IT standards in clinical infrastructure
new style interactive focus topic workshop exploring current developments in the use of standards to underpin integrated clini ...
30/10/2006

A course looking at the role of IT standards in clinical infrastructure
new style interactive focus topic workshop exploring current developments in the use of standards to underpin integrated clini ...
30/10/2006

Efforts to increase the levels of ICT in healthcare will not succeed if average citizens are not involved in discourse about e-health policy, a key group of European informatics professionals is cauti ...
23/10/2006

The fifth EuroRec 2006 Annual Conference, organised in conjunction with WHIT2006, was well attended; more than 140 participants. This year’s conference focused on Quality Labelling and Certification o ...
23/10/2006

Coinciding with last week's inaugural World of Health IT conference in Geneva, Switzerland, the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) officially launched its fir ...
19/10/2006

This year’s conference will focus on the Quality Labelling and Certification of the EHR, the importance of which is recognised by the European Commission in funding the Q-REC project to be managed by ...
06/10/2006

The World of Health IT 2006 Conference & Exhibition promises to be a first of its kind conference. This European-based event will attract and connect leaders and experts in health information and comm ...
06/10/2006

Two hosted GP practice systems have so far received accreditation from NHS Connecting for Health.
InPS Vision 3 Enterprise edition, as offered by the Capital Care Alliance in the London cluster an ...
28/09/2006

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) has posted to its Web site the documents approved at the Sept. 18 board meeting related to Phase II of its work, which includes u ...
28/09/2006

The next application period for certification of ambulatory EHR products will be Aug. 1 - 14 and the next announcement of certified EHR products is scheduled for late October.
CCHIT has opened a p ...
06/09/2006

Praxis® EMR version 3.4 recently became one of only 22 Electronic Medical Record (EMR) products to receive certification from the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHITS ...
22/08/2006

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Mike Leavitt announced on Tuesday, July 18, that the first ambulatory electronic health record (EHR) products have been certified by the Ce ...
20/07/2006

Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology announces first ambulatory electronic health record products certified as comply with their criteria and urges physicians to look for EHR ...
20/07/2006

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) will seek qualified candidates to serve as Commissioners for a two-year term beginning in October. The call for candidates op ...
17/07/2006

The Certification Commission for Healthcare IT on July 18 plans to release the names of the first group of certified electronic health records software vendors, Modern Healthcare reports.
More than ...
06/07/2006

WASHINGTON -- With so much attention recently focused on certification of electronic health record products, little has been said about another component of the drive toward an interoperable health-IT ...
16/06/2006

It has become a running joke in recent years at the annual Towards an Electronic Patient Record (TEPR) conference that perhaps it's time to make some progress in the conference's namesake quest.
As ...
24/05/2006

EMIS have announced that its PCS GP software system has won Scottish Enhanced Functionality accreditation, meaning that GPs north of the border will be able to apply for funding to switch to the syste ...
24/05/2006

EMIS have announced that its PCS GP software system has won Scottish Enhanced Functionality accreditation, meaning that GPs north of the border will be able to apply for funding to switch to the syste ...
15/05/2006

Vendors of electronic health records can begin to apply for the first-ever certification program for ambulatory EHR software starting Wednesday.
The Certification Commission for Health Information ...
03/05/2006

Guidance to help general practices start a massive clean-up of data in their IT systems has been launched by Connecting for Health, NHS Employers and the British Medical Association.
Dr Gillian Br ...
03/05/2006

The nation’s first healthcare IT leader has resigned his post, Healthcare IT News has learned. David Brailer, MD, who first took office in May, 2004, has led the federal effort to make electronic medi ...
28/04/2006

The healthcare community needs to get behind a move to certify electronic health records for the outpatient setting, the government’s health care information technology leader on Tuesday told the 3rd ...
28/04/2006

This month, the International Organization of Standardization (ISO) granted Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) “liaison D status” to make standards-based IHE profiles more available to the pu ...
20/04/2006

CHICAGO, April 14, 2006 – The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) is seeking qualified jurors to assess ambulatory EHR products and how well they conform to the CCHI ...
20/04/2006

GP practices in Wales can earn £4250 under a new IT payment scheme worth £2.1 million agreed as part of the renegotiated nGMS contract.
The new directed enhanced service (DES) for IM&T will pay th ...
20/04/2006

The American Hospital Association has raised concerns over a proposed certification process for inpatient electronic health records, saying the process should take into account whether a product is ea ...
04/04/2006

The American Hospital Association has raised concerns over a proposed certification process for inpatient electronic health records, saying the process should take into account whether a product is ea ...
04/04/2006

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology will begin commercial certification of ambulatory electronic health records this spring. Do you believe product certification will in ...
04/04/2006

An organization that will certify healthcare IT projects has proposed vendor fees for testing and certification. The group is also seeking final feedback on its process for testing ambulatory electron ...
04/04/2006

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT), a voluntary, private-sector initiative to certify health IT Products, is seeking candidates to serve as co-chairs and member ...
04/04/2006

In the future, patients arriving in the emergency room who need immediate access to their medical records may be armed -- literally -- with a tiny, high-tech helper.
More than 1,000 Americans have ...
04/04/2006

The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology will begin commercial certification of ambulatory electronic health records this spring. Do you believe product certification will in ...
15/03/2006

An organization that will certify healthcare IT projects has proposed vendor fees for testing and certification. The group is also seeking final feedback on its process for testing ambulatory electron ...
15/03/2006

An open-source community founded in University College London has produced the first blueprint of an international electronic record standard that they hope will be used as a standard by software deve ...
14/03/2006

As an exhibitor, your company will gain increased visibility and credibility among prospects and customers throughout the industry. You will see and be seen by the people you want to reach – all under ...
24/02/2006

NHS Connecting for Health has outlined new proposals for delivering GP system choice based on a multi-step accreditation process. If adopted, the approach could potentially enable practices to buy sys ...
20/02/2006

Welcome to the World of Health IT 2006 Conference & Exhibition! Through this link, http://www.WorldOfHealthIT.org you can apply to participate in this event through the Call for Papers. This promises ...
25/01/2006

A group that will certify electronic health records is looking for vendors in three market segments to participate in the group’s initial pilot tests of EHRs for physician offices and other outpatient ...
12/12/2005

GP practices are to be paid to bring patient records up to national data accreditation standards as part of the NHS national IT programme.
According to a report in Doctor magazine practices will h ...
08/12/2005

The Care Records Development Board should be heartily congratulated on this pragmatic initiative.
Priorities for decision support seem to have been clearly identified.
The role of nominated pr ...
08/12/2005

It's good to see a real value being placed on GP records, very many of which have well developed summaries. I'm aware that the full summary is not what will appear in the spine, and hope that it will ...
08/12/2005

A group that holds a federal contract to certify electronic health records will begin a pilot test of EHRs for physicians' offices and other ambulatory settings next month.
The Certification Commi ...
06/12/2005

Professor De Moor will attend as key note speaker and address the topic of trends in Health Informatics in Europe: "Quality Labelling and Certification of Electronic Health Record Systems (EHRs). ...
05/12/2005

A new tool has been launched to enable benchmarking of the organisation and management of GP practices. Developed by partners in nine European countries, including the National Primary Care Research a ...
28/10/2005

Whether you say EMR or EHR is more than a matter of semantics. Electronic medical records (EMRs) and electronic health records (EHRs) are not the same thing. The acronyms represent entirely different ...
14/10/2005

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology to develop a process for certifying electronic health records and the infrastructure providers will use to exchange the records. CCHIT, a ...
14/10/2005

A group that is developing ways to certify healthcare information technology products is moving closer to testing electronic health records and will create a series of use cases to fit a requirement o ...
23/08/2005

A group working to develop standards to certify health-IT vendor products says it will take public comments beginning next month on a set of simulated ambulatory medical cases and on a planned pilot t ...
22/08/2005

A group working to develop standards to certify health-IT vendor products says it will take public comments beginning next month on a set of simulated ambulatory medical cases and on a planned pilot t ...
17/08/2005

The South African State Information Technology Agency (SITA) plans to develop an electronic health record system (EHR) for the national Department of Health. For the nationwide adoption of the project ...
27/07/2005

The healthcare industry is one step closer to creating a standard for electronic health records after a major standards organization incorporated new feedback into a draft functional EHR model that wi ...
26/07/2005

A new consumer study released today by Accenture’s Health and Life Sciences division finds that more than nine out of 10 consumers believe electronic medical records can improve medical care and reduc ...
26/07/2005

Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt in June announced the government’s intent to form the American Health Information Community, a 17-member group that will include representatives fro ...
26/07/2005

There is no one in medicine who does not consider it both crucial and long overdue to have electronic records in doctor's offices and hospitals.
With electronic files, patient records are not stuck ...
25/07/2005

The EHR Management: NHS Code of Practice has been published by the Department of Health. The guidance was drafted by a working group made up of representatives from the Department of Health, NHS Conne ...
04/07/2005

The Department of Health and Human Services, through the Program Support Center, has a requirement to develop and evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of an electronic health record compliance c ...
01/07/2005

A private sector group that has been developing a process to certify electronic health records hopes to win a government contract designed to develop and test certification of digital records.
...
01/07/2005

To further enhance communication, the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) will host a series of Town Calls to explain the Phase II product, which is drafting and fin ...
01/07/2005

DALLAS — While the Certification Commission for Healthcare Technology is on a fast track to develop a way to put a seal of approval on electronic health record systems, some in the industry have raise ...
26/03/2005

WASHINGTON — The government is pursuing numerous strategies to spur information technology adoption in the healthcare industry, including examining how to tie the various healthcare IT standards deve ...
07/03/2005